Reference

NORTE-02-0651-FEDER-000025

Project Type

Regional / Público

Financial Program

NORTE 2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte

IPB Funding Value

80100.00 €

Research Project

Principal Investigator

Paula Sofia Alves do Cabo

Start

2016-09-01

End

2019-02-08

More info

http://www.emern.pt/

Description

The project EMER-N - Entrepreneurship in the Rural Areas in the Northern Region - aims to implement a program to support Entrepreneurship, adapted to the constraints and particularities of the rural areas with the purpose of creating a positive environment, supporting the start and growth of companies and employment in the North. To this end, EMER-N focuses on the objectives of enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs, value and promoting local economies, revitalizing local and regional knowledge and wisdom, and helping to retain the local population. The project will include support activities, as well as promotion and communication actions aimed at helping entrepreneurs in the region concerned. EMER-N is a project funded by the NORTE Regional Operational Program 2020.

Goals

• Enhance the Competitiveness of Small and Medium Enterprises
• Encourage local-based entrepreneurship
• Create value and promote local economies
• Revitalize local and regional knowledges
• Contribute to the fixation of the local population

Results

Measure	Value
Created Companies	344
Promoted Investment	3,4 M euros
Jobs created	344 (1 average job per company)
Dynamized turnover	5M Euros (average of 14.5 thousand euros of turnover per company created)
Creation of an EMER-N platform	1
Births of companies in high and medium-high technology sectors and in knowledge intensive services	4

Project Team

Fernando António Torrão Fernandes
Paula Sofia Alves do Cabo

• Jorge Humberto Lopes Marinho Sampaio

Project Partners

• ACIBTM-Associação Centro de Incubação de Base Tecnológica do Minho (inCubo)
• ADER-SOUSA - Associação de Desenvolvimento Rural das Terras do Sousa
• ADRAT - Associação de Desenvolvimento da Região do Alto Tâmega
• ADRIMAG - Associação de Desenvolvimento Rural Integrado das Serras do Montemuro, Arada e Gralheira
• ADRIMINHO - Associação de Desenvolvimento Rural Integrado do Vale do Minho
• ADRITEM - Associação de Desenvolvimento Rural Integrado das Terras de Santa Maria
• ATAHCA - Associação de Desenvolvimento das Terras Altas do Homem, Cávado e Ave
• CORANE - Associação de Desenvolvimento dos Concelhos da Raia Nordestina
• DESTEQUE - Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Terra Quente
• DOLMEN - Cooperativa de Formação, Educação e Desenvolvimento do Baixo Tâmega, CRL
• DOURO SUPERIOR - Associação de Desenvolvimento
• IET-Tâmega- Instituto Empresarial do Tâmega
• IPVC - Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo
• UTAD - Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro